National Small Business Association Gets Behind Reform. Sort Of.

Today, the National Small Business Association launched a website touting it's pro-reform efforts and platform.

This, of course, makes sense, as health care costs have been strangling small businesses in the U.S. for years. Many companies have simply decided to not offer benefits of any kind, while others, straining under the weight of legacy benefits, have shut down rather than continue to pay insurmountable premium bills.

One interesting statement from the site:

Reforming how health care is delivered in the U.S. is critical to the success of small business—something NSBA has been saying for years. In fact, in 2004, and previously in 1993, NSBA poured enormous resources into developing a proposal for broad health care reform. Meeting with small-business owners, benefit managers, insurance providers, Congressional staff, think-tank experts and leaders of small-business organizations throughout the country for more than a year, NSBA arrived at a proposal that will reduce health care costs while improving quality, bring about a fair sharing of health care costs, and focus on the empowerment and responsibility of individual health care consumers.

Basically, the NSBA is saying that they've been behind reform all along. Maybe.

The problem is that politically, the NSBA has historically supported candidates for office who've had an anti-reform agenda once elected. Let's see if this new mantra at the NSBA will lead them to truly support pro-reform efforts, or if this website/initiative is just a smoke-screen.

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